Jean Laurenz, Maria Finkelmeier, and Greg Jukes

Jean Laurenz is an eclectic musician and multisensory artist. She is currently the assistant professor of trumpet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a performer, Laurenz has enjoyed appearances with Adele, the Hanson Brothers, the Boston Pops, the New York Philharmonic, and the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. Primarily a chamber musician, she frequents the genre with innovative ensembles including Seraph Brass, the Knights, A Far Cry, Alarm Will Sound, and with Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect. Laurenz is also a vocalist and stage performer who enjoys multidimensional artistic performances that combine theater, singing, trumpet, and collaborative arts. Laurenz holds degrees in trumpet performance and choral education from Yale University and Northwestern University. She is a passionate educator, social activist, and teaching artist. Laurenz has curated interactive youth and community concerts for Carnegie Hall, the Boston Symphony, and Handel and Haydn Society.

Maria Finkelmeier is a percussionist, composer, public artist, educator, and arts entrepreneur, who was named a “one-woman dynamo” by the Boston Globe and Boston’s Best 2018 "Creative Catalyst" by the Improper Bostonian. She has created large-scale multimedia works in public spaces from Cincinnati to Northern Sweden, with several locations in Boston, including Fenway Park, Charlestown Navy Yard, Edison Power Plant, and Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. Finkelmeier finds music, narrative, and collaboration in unexpected places. She’s created entire works from found, nontraditional sounds and transformed iconic structures into percussive playgrounds. She’s been commissioned by the National Parks Service, BLINK Cincinnati, TEDx Cambridge, New Gallery Concert Series, i = u festival, the Illuminus Festival, Boston Center for the Arts, and the Outside the Box Festival. In 2018, she released her debut album as a composer A Line that Terminates at the Present. An experienced entrepreneur, Finkelmeier has founded and directed numerous creative ventures, including her creative multimedia studio, MF Dynamics, along with Kadence Arts, Make Music Boston, Quartet Kalos, Masary Studios, and Ensemble Evolution. She is an associate professor at Berklee College of Music.